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How is the cost-of-living crisis hitting UK nightlife?

Post-pandemic, as UK clubs have attempted to regroup, they’ve been impacted by soaring energy bills, rising costs and hesitant ticket buyers. Jack Ramage talks to club owners and promoters about how they’re weathering the storm, and asks what can be done to ameliorate the situation?

“It’s terrifying... I wake up every day and hope that we find a way to keep going,” Kate Hodgkinson, co-founder of Cobalt Studios, an independent...

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The Sound Of: Critical Music

As the underground drum & bass label celebrates its 20th anniversary, Critical Music founder Kasra records a breakneck mix of tracks from its catalogue, and chats to Jake Hirst about the imprint’s history and constant evolution

“I started the label as a hobby and didn’t know where it would take me. So when I look back and think about everything we’ve...

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House music’s Black roots highlighted in The Daily Show segment: Watch

Martha Wash joins correspondent Roy Wood, Jr. in the clip, which also shouts out house pioneers Frankie Knuckles, Larry Levan and Ron Hardy

The Daily Show paid tribute to house music and its pioneers in its CP Time segment last week. Watch the clip below In the midst...

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Actress announces new album, ‘Statik’, on Smalltown Supersound

Listen to the first two singles – ‘Dolphin Spray’ and ‘Static’ – now

Actress has announced a new album for Smalltown Supersound, ‘Statik’. Set for release on 7th June, the 11-track album sees the English electronic musician exploring...

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The gig-less economy: what could a post-pandemic dance music scene look like?

As dance music’s top-heavy, tour-focused infrastructure crumbles, people across the industry are wondering how new revenue streams can emerge to support artists during and after...

It’s been four months since COVID-19 sent dancers into deep freeze. With no sign of a vaccine, the suspicion is that clubs will stay closed...

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Selections: FOQL

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, Pointless Geometry's FOQL spotlights experimental electronic sounds from the Polish underground

“I am not really a DJ in a club way, more of a plunderphonist!” says Justyna Banaszczyk, aka FOQL, whose Selections feature a fascinating assemblage...

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Fresh Kicks 150: Byron Yeates

Radiant Love resident and co-founder Byron Yeates records a mix of peak time rave euphoria for the Fresh Kicks series

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How the Moscow bass scene is tearing down the city's techno barriers

Despite being largely ignored by the west, Moscow has had a rich bass scene for over a decade. After reaching an impasse in 2015 as...

Moscow’s bass scene has a long and trend-setting history, although it’s not had much attention in the west. A number of the city’s promoters have...

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Matador: How I Play Live

We go behind the tech with the Irish techno titan...

With his early releases as part of the discernable MINUS crew, to his own label RUKUS, Matador has been a creative force in techno for...

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Premiere: BELLA ‘Orchestra Spring’

BELLA debuts on Sally C’s Big Saldo’s Chunkers with a suite of pumping ’90s house with flourishes of acid, electro and prog

BELLA will release her debut EP, ‘Note to Self’, later this week via Big Saldo’s Chunkers. Have an exclusive first listen to ‘Orchestra Spring’ below...

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How Jeff Mills' 'Waveform Vol. 1' started a new era of techno

Released on Tresor in 1992, Jeff Mills' debut LP ‘Waveform Transmission Vol. 1’ is a record that stands for repetition and filth, forged from wrought steel and imbued with scuffed-up funk. Here, 30 years after its release, Ben Cardew takes a deep dive into the sound, origins and legacy of an album that birthed a new breed of techno

Listen to a lot of older techno today and it sounds rather restrained. Brilliant, yes, and futuristic too, yet largely soft and melodic compared to...

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Album of the month: Erika de Casier ‘Sensational’

Erika de Casier establishes herself as a pop star in the making with a knack for club crossover tracks on her romantic, garage-influenced new album...

When Erika de Cassier was growing up in the late '90s, R&B hits by the likes of TLC, Destiny’s Child and Brandy & Monica dominated...

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At Sónar 2019, Spain’s electronic music scene shone

Sónar has always sought to support talent from its home country, and this year its programme highlighted the incredible creativity of Spain’s electronic music scene in...

Sónar 2019 took place last weekend, from Thursday 18th to Saturday 20th July. The programme featured artists that exist on the bleeding edge of electronic...